An Interesting Fact About Your Country

[Matt Oliver]

Ireland:
Am... we were the first to ban smoking in public buildings and whatnot, also, we can't buy booze after ten o' clock at night. What has become of us?!
The Queen of England is visiting next week, I'm worried someone will kill her.
Lots of Americans think they're Irish for no tangible reason.
Irish was the first vernacular language in Europe to develop a written form.
We really do have leprechauns... swear.

Well, since a good chunk of the boston area in Mass is made up of irish families and i descended from an irish mom whos grandfather took the boat from ireland, i think i do have a tangible reason. Point being that the Irish immergrated a shit ton and had a shit ton of kids.

 

[Kenko]

Sweden, we're the only ones who have succesfully invaded and taken parts of Russia without freezing and running away like others

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish-Muscovite_War_%281605%E2%80%931618%29#Poles_in_Moscow_.281610.29

O RLY?

One of the few then?

 

[Aetherlblade]

to paraphrase Wyatt Cenac "When I see the people at the Tea Party protest with the signs that have Obama with a Hitler mustache drawn on it, I want to go there with a sharpie and draw in a full mustache, a beard, and a mohawk. they'll be like "what are you doing" and I'll say "Now it's a Mr. T party " I pity the fool who doesn't have health insurance, that's a third world issue we are a first world country"

This is THE most awesome reply ever dunno why but this how many people here in holland always look to you US people, wondering why the hell you guys dont have a normal healthcare system like europe.


Anyway, did you know holland owned New York, and sold it for a pound and an other colony to britain?

 

[Aetherlblade]

sorry double post

 

[The Stonker]

Iceland! Lets come with a fact about Iceland.
Well, we have the biggest glacier in Europe (Greenland doesn't count.)

They voted not to pay back the countries in Europe that they lost their money for.

The man who owned the bank is responsable for this.
Not the country.
I'm sorry but Iceland just doesn't want to pay money that they can't handle and we don't bail everything out like the Americans, so yeah, screw you.

 

[GazDM]

This kind of sums up Britain pretty nicely http://youtu.be/T72TopWbXJg

 

[JasonKaotic]

The country's being run by the biggest, purest, most overwhelmingly hateable prick in the country and his dog.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but I want Gordon Brown back.

 

[sergnb]

The biggest Empire in the history of the world was the spanish empire.

I thought British and then Mongolian was bigger (Wikipedia also supports this and says Russian is 3rd which makes sense). Fourth isn't bad though Spain, but you got nothing on us Brits when it comes to imperialism and oppression!

D'oh well, might be true, you know, can never trust what I see on the internet, and I don't quite remember thos history classes that well.

But yeah, Slavery, Opression! We are really good that it 8D

 

[Saint of M]

Most people in the US can't tell you what their State's capital is, much less what most of the other states names most of the time.

 

[StellarViking]

Britain- We had a soldier in world war 2 who went into battle with a sword, bow and arrows and a shield. Correct me if I'm wrong, he may have been american but i dunno for definate

Holy crap, I just mentioned that dude in another thread. Jack Churchill, and he was indeed English.

Also, another fact about America: Our national anthem was written by a man taken prisoner on an English warship.

 

[sexbutler]

Apparently, Australia is the fattest country in the world.

... woo Australia.

No we're not, we're the 21st fattest country.

OT: Australia is home to the only Monotremes in existence, which, if you didn't know, are basically mammals that lay eggs.

Edit: OK, Monotremes are actually in New Guinea too, so that invalidates that.

Uh... we have the worlds most poisonous snakes?

The platypus' sting is perfectly non-lethal, but is said to be the most painful experience a human being can have. There is no plural of the word platypus.

 

[zehydra]

The majority of the founding fathers refused to describe their religion
The United States is not a Christian country as most of the founding fathers where deists

and the founding father's religious opinions would have no bearing on what the country is today anyway.

 

[zehydra]

Britain- We had a soldier in world war 2 who went into battle with a sword, bow and arrows and a shield. Correct me if I'm wrong, he may have been american but i dunno for definate

Holy crap, I just mentioned that dude in another thread. Jack Churchill, and he was indeed English.

Also, another fact about America: Our national anthem was written by a man taken prisoner on an English warship.

set to the tune of a drinking song!

 

[Parshooter]

Canada's first Prime Minister was a drunk who was guilty of accepting bribes. Our leader during WWII had multiple stuffed dogs named Pat and made many decisions in conference with his dead father. For some reason many think that the corrupt drunk was still in the top three best Prime Ministers ever though.

 

[rekulnats]

I'm going to go for my town, rather than country. New Malden (in Surrey and South West Greater London) has the largest community of South Koreans in Europe with around 8000. This is because the SK ambassador moved to the area in the '70s. ¦D

 

[t3h br0th3r]

AMERICA: We will cross a frozen river to kill you on Christmas.

Yeah, Washington crossed the Delaware on Christmas morning while the Hessins were all hungover. Yep,America was full of hardasses from day one....or was that day negative one.

 

[Valdus]

Scotland: We have two flags rather than one.

St Andrews Cross - The blue background and white cross in front representing the cross St Andrew was crucified on. We also have the (now rarely used) Lion Rampant which depicts a red lion with a yellow background.

Second Fact: Our national anthem can be summed up as "Back off Edward Longshanks, you can't steal our country". It was created to inspire Scottish warriors trying to drive the english out of Scotland.

 

[EinTheCorgi]

Well I live in the good old US off A and...A good 80% of the people here are mind numbingly stupid, in one way or another. Weather it be book smart yet lacking in common sense or that they cant tell the difference between an oak and a elm tree.

 

[Aurgelmir]

In an effort to become more multicultural and end the non-existent amount of seething nationalism on the Escapist [/sarcasm], put forward your best ice breaker (or the most interesting fact to you) about your home country. Mine most definitely is the United States was a nation built on weed, without which the 13 colonies` economy would`ve collapsed.

Well tomorrow is Norway's national day (17th of May)...

Now what is interesting about us? Well the movie Movie Bob reviewed last week was from Norway...

 

[S3Cs4uN 8]

New Zealand was the first country to give women voting rights

what a mistake that was

then again the men cant vote a decent leader anyway.

(im live in new zealand)

You just managed to be offensive to two sexes, a nation, AND contradict yourself in one post, I suspect you are trolling

nope im being dead serial